Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and managing director of oil conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited, the largest private sector company in India. It was initially founded by his father in 1966, and Mukesh, along with his estranged brother Anil, run various arms of the company.

Appeal

Money, power and brilliance are big magnets for certain women, but have you seen the man’s wife Nita? She could go toe-to-toe with Bollywood bombshell Aishwarya Rai. She’d lose… but Nita is drop-dead beautiful nonetheless.

Success

Heading up Reliance, Mukesh Ambani is a highly respected leader in the international business community and has been given numerous accolades, including the 2007 Global Vision Award from the US-India Business Council, the 2004 Asia Society Leadership Award by the Asia Society, Voice and Data magazine named him Telecom Man of the Year, in 2006 Economic Times named him Business Leader of the Year, and he has a regular showing on power and wealth lists from the likes of Forbes and Fortune.

Mukesh Ambani Biography

Born in 1957 in Yemen, Mukesh D. Ambani is the first son of a legend and icon of the Indian business world, Dhirubhai Ambani, a man whose rags-to-riches story of building the industry giant Reliance Industries is never short on hyperbole. After earning a degree in chemical engineering, Mukesh went to work for Reliance and today is the company’s chairman and managing director. As a consequence of his hard work and dedication, he is among the wealthiest individuals in the world.

mukesh ambani’s education

Mukesh Ambani talks about his childhood with deep affection, specifically about the manner in which his father chose to have Mukesh and his siblings educated. His idea was to hire a teacher to meet with the children each night for a few hours to educate them on a broad, liberal spectrum of subjects such as sports and travel. In his teens, Mukesh Ambani spent a lot of time hanging around his father’s office before heading off to get a degree in chemical engineering from the University Department of Chemical Technology (today known as University of Mumbai, Institute of Chemical Technology). He then joined the MBA program at Stanford University before leaving in 1981 to join Reliance.

mukesh ambani joins reliance industries

Mukesh Ambani’s career with his father’s company began with a position in the company’s somewhat new polyester business. In time, he began guiding Reliance into not just polyester fibers but petrochemicals as well. In the process he increased its manufacturing output by a factor of 12. He established Reliance Communications Limited, which is today one of the largest telecommunications companies in India, and has overseen company expansion into a number of related and unrelated fields, including retail like fresh food and jewelry.

In June 2006, a much publicized rift with his brother led to a split in the business, with Mukesh Ambani taking control of four group companies: Reliance Industries, Reliance Petroleum (RPL), IPCL, and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd (RIIL). As the biggest shareholder at Reliance, with a personal stake of 48%, his fortune has been skyrocketing.

mukesh ambani builds the antilia

Construction began on Mukesh Ambani’s ambitious vertical palace, the Antilia, in 2007. It was estimated to climb 570 feet toward the sky but feature just 27 floors, including three floors of gardens, a theater, pools, a gym, parking space for scores of cars, and floors designed strictly for guests. The top floors are reserved for Mukesh Ambani and his family, and offer them an amazing view of both the city below and the Arabian Sea in the distance.